Karl HERRUP
PhD Stanford University
Neurogenetics, cell cycle, cell death, CNS development,
epigenetics, Alzheimer's disease, ataxia-telangietasia |
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Nancy Yuk-Yu IP
PhD Harvard
Molecular control of neuronal survival, differentiation, synapse development and plasticity; drug discovery and development for neurodegenerative diseases. |
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H. Benjamin PENG
BSc National Tsing Hua; PhD Purdue
Development of the neuromuscular junction; signal transduction mechanisms in synaptogenesis. |
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Pei-Yuan QIAN
BSc Ocean Univ of Qingdao; MSc Xiamen; PhD Alberta
(Principal Investigator of Center for
Marine Bioactive Substances)
Current
research focuses on environmental impact
on larval biology of marine
invertebrates; marine fouling and
antifouling; environmental impact
assessment; mariculture and marine
natural products. |
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Yung
Hou WONG
PhD Cambridge
Major research interests are in the
delineation of the mechanisms of cell
signaling. The roles of G proteins in
the regulation of cell proliferation,
differentiation and the development of
drug tolerance are studied using
cellular models. |
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Mingjie ZHANG
PhD Calgary
Structure and function of regulatory proteins involved in neuronal signal transductions and cell polarity. |
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David K. BANFIELD
PhD British Columbia
Protein and membrane trafficking with a particular emphasis on mechanisms of protein localization, retention and sorting in the Golgi apparatus. |
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King-Lau CHOW
BSc Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; PhD Baylor Coll of Medicine
Molecular and genetic analysis of body pattern formation; cell fate determination; differentiation, assembly and morphogenesis of sensory organ; evolution of sexual characteristics and mating system. |
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Robert K.M. KO
PhD British Columbia
Antioxidant mechanism(s) of Chinese tonic herbs with focus on
the regulation of cellular glutathione redox status;
Pharmacological basis of Yang/Qi-invigoration in Chinese
medicine. |
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Ning LI
BSc Beijing Forestry Coll; MSc, PhD Univ of Washington
Current research areas include (1)
Phosphoproteomics and plant cell
signaling; (2) Regulation of ethylene
biosynthesis; (3) Genetic engineering of
energy plants and microbes. |
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Andrew L. MILLER
PhD Dundee
Calcium
signaling during early development;
calcium imaging techniques; transgenic
model systems for imaging calcium ions
in living organisms. |
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Randy Y.C. POON
MA, PhD Cambridge
Molecular
basis of cell cycle control in normal
and cancer cells. |
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Karl Wah-Keung TSIM
BSc, MPhil Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; PhD Cambridge
Molecular genetic methods are used to
investigate the cellular and molecular
events that lead to the formation of
synapses during development and
regeneration. |
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Bik Kwoon
YEUNG TYE (Visiting Professor)
PhD MIT
Regulation of DNA replication in eukaryotes. |
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Wen-Xiong WANG
BSc, MSc Xiamen; PhD State Univ of New York, Stony Brook
Trace element ecotoxicology and
biogeochemistry; marine pollution;
physiological ecology of invertebrates. |
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Zilong WEN
PhD Rockefeller
Molecular
control of hematopoietic stem cell pool
formation and phagocyte development. |
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Joseph T.Y. WONG
BSc Univ Coll of North Wales; MSc, PhD Stirling
Cellulosic Thecal Plates, Cell Wall Assembly, birefringent
chromosomes, biotechnology |
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Yuk-Shan WONG
BA Concordia; MSc, PhD McGill
Research interests include: (i)
biochemistry and molecular biology of
metallothionein (MT)-like binding
complexes in plants; (ii)
biotechnological system using microalgae
to remove toxic heavy metals and organic
wastes from industrial wastewater; (iii)
conservation of mangrove ecosystem and
its application on retention and
mobilization of pollutants from sewage. |
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Zhenguo WU
PhD Western Ontario
Elucidation
of the roles of intracellular signal
transduction pathways in skeletal muscle
differentiation and EBV-mediated
cellular transformation. |
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Hong
XUE
BMed, MSc Shanghai Second Military Medical Univ;
PhD Toronto
Director of Applied
Genomics Center
My group research focuses on genomics, bioinformatics and
evolution biology to decipher the mechanisms of human complex
disorders. The group is also interested in translational
research on novel therapeutics and diagnostics for complex
diseases such as neuropsychiatric disorders. |
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Guang ZHU
PhD Maryland
Development
of NMR methods for structure-function
studies of biomolecules.
Structure-function studies of proteins
involved in the initiation of DNA
replication, epigenetics control of gene
expression and cancer. NMR study of tRNA. |
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Kenny K. CHUNG
PhD Cambridge
Molecular
mechanisms of Neurodegeneration.
Functional studies of genes that are
linked to familial Parkinson's disease. |
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Pingbo HUANG,
BSc Peking
Univ; PhD Univ of Cincinnati
Regulation
of Ion Channels and Epithelial Biology.
The research in my lab focuses on the
regulation of epithelial ion channels
including CFTR. In addition, my lab is
interested in other related questions in
epithelial biology. |
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Kevin A.W. LEE
PhD McGill
Transcription factors; nucleic
acid-protein interactions; Ewings
sarcoma oncogene; anti-cancer drugs. |
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Chun LIANG
PhD Brown
Mechanism
and cell cycle control of DNA
replication in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Regulation of DNA replication in normal
and cancer cells. Molecular cancer
detection methods and anticancer drugs. |
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Hongbin LIU
PhD University of Hawaii at Manoa
Plankton
ecology, marine microbial food web
structure and trophic dynamics. |
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Ho Yi MAK
PhD University College London
Regulation of fat storage and mobilization in C. elegans
and mammalian cells. |
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Robert Z. QI
PhD Calgary
Understanding cytoskeletal organization
and regulation during cell
proliferation, migration, and
differentiation with a range of tools
from biochemistry, mass spectrometry,
molecular and cell biology. |
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Raymond S. C. WONG
(Visiting Associate Professor)
PhD South Dakota
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Wan-Keung R. WONG
Dip Hong Kong Baptist Coll; MSc Regina; PhD British Columbia
Cloning and
expression of genes in Escherichia
coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Bacillus subtilis;
development of these host systems for
extracellular production of valuable
proteins; production and reconstitution
of recombinant cellulases for use in
cellulosic waste management. |
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Jun XIA
PhD Johns Hopkins
Molecular
mechanism of protein trafficking and its
implication in brain disorder, diabetes
and infertility. Molecular and cellular
bases of learning and memory,
organization of synapse and regulation
of synaptic transmission. |
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Tom Hiu Tung CHEUNG
PhD University of Colorado
at Boulder
Molecular mechanisms of stem cell quiescence and activation. |
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Stanley C.K.
LAU
PhD HKUST
Marine microbial ecology, microbial source tracking of fecal
pollution in seawater, population genetics of environmental
E. coli strains. |
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Kai LIU
PhD Rutgers
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of axonal regeneration
failure in adult mammalian central nervous system. |
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Yan YAN
PhD Princeton
The molecular and cellular basis of epithelium
morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. |
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Qinglu ZENG
PhD State University of New
York at Albany
The role of cyanobacteria and their viruses (cyanophages) in marine ecological processes and how they adapt to the marine environment through genomic coevolution.
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Helen CHEUNG
PhD Oxford Polytechnic
Email address: cheungh@ust.hk
Office Room No.: 5502B
Office Phone No.: 2358-7904 |
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Siu Chun HUNG
PhD Columbia
Email address:
bohsc@ust.hk
Office Room No.: 5452
Office Phone No.: 2358-7303 |
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Ice W P KO
PhD HKU
Email address:
iceko@ust.hk
Office Room No.: 5444
Office Phone No.: 2358-8923 |
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Philip Y. LAM
PhD USC
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Yueying REN
PhD UCLA
Email address:
boren@ust.hk
Office Room No.: 5451A
Office Phone No.: 2358-7322 |
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Jessica Ce Mun TANG
Email address:
bocemun@ust.hk
Office Room No.: 4149B
Office Phone No.: 2358-7314 |
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Bobby T K YIM
Email address:
bobby@ust.hk
Office Room No.: 4161A
Office Phone No.: 2358-7278 |
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